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In a 2-1 ruling, judges found grant program run by Black-woman owned venture capitalist firm likely to violate' Civil Rights ActA US federal court of appeals panel has suspended Fearless Fund, an Atlanta-based, Black woman-owned venture capitalist firm, from continuing the firm's Fearless Strivers Grant Contest, a grant program for Black female business owners.In the 2-1 ruling, the panel of three judges, two appointed by Donald Trump and one appointed by Barack Obama, ruled that the grant program is substantially likely to violate" section 1981 of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1866, which prohibits the use of race in making contracts. The act aimed to fully integrate formerly enslaved Black Americans as citizens, give them the full rights of American citizenship and to make it illegal to deprive any Americans of rights on the basis of race, color, or prior condition of slavery or involuntary servitude". Continue reading...

US president's remarks to Time magazine about PM's role in conflict draw heavily critical response from Israeli government

Worker called 911 when Constance Glantz, 74, was discovered to be breathing as staff were preparing her for her own funeralPolice in Lincoln, Nebraska, are investigating why a 74-year-old woman was pronounced dead but then found to actually be alive in a local funeral home on Monday.The town's firefighting and rescue teams responded to the Butherus-Maser & Love funeral home at 11.43am after the caller said CPR was being performed on what was initially thought to be the corpse of Constance Glantz. Continue reading...

Claudia Sheinbaum aims to continue the pursuit of social justice - her predecessor's most outstanding quality - without his charismaClaudia Sheinbaum made history this week by winning a landslide election to become Mexico's first female president. A leftwing climate scientist, Ms Sheinbaum appears a technocrat with progressive views, everything her presidential predecessor, the folksy populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as Amlo, was not.Yet the differences may be more about style than substance. Ms Sheinbaum has been by Mr Lopez Obrador's side for two decades, and has a deserved reputation for hard work, fidelity to her mentor and a thirst for social justice. One of the big questions for thenew president is whether her win will translate intomore political rights and protections for women, 11of whom are murdered a day. Continue reading...

Kenneth Chesebro, Jim Troupis and Michael Roman each charged with one felony count of forgery, according to court documentsWisconsin's attorney general, Josh Kaul, filed felony charges on Tuesday against three men who played a key role in the effort to appoint fake electors in the state as part of Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the election.Kenneth Chesebro, Jim Troupis, and Michael Roman were each charged with one felony count of forgery, according to court documents. The crime is a class H felony punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 and up to six years in prison. Continue reading...

As Biden launches the strictest border crackdown of his presidency, five asylum seekers share their battles to secure protection in the USOn Tuesday, Joe Biden unveiled the most restrictive immigration policy of his presidency with an executive order enabling the mass rejection of asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border when crossings reach certain levels.The order would allow the US government to temporarily shut down the border when the number of people seeking entry exceeds a daily threshold, empowering authorities to automatically block migrants from presenting their asylum cases. The policy, which would significantly erode the rights of asylum seekers, appears to be one of the harshest immigration crackdowns pushed by any modern Democrat and mirrors the Trump administration's efforts to broadly limit entries en masse. Continue reading...

President also likens his predecessor's rejection of the court verdict against him to his refusal to accept he lost 2020 electionJoe Biden has called Donald Trump reckless and dangerous" over the former president's claim that the trial leading to last week's felony conviction in a Manhattan court was rigged.In his sharpest criticism yet of his predecessor's drive to undermine the legal integrity of the prosecution against him, the president also said a second Trump presidency would be a much greater threat to American democracy than his first. He likened Trump's rejection of the court verdict against him to his refusal to accept that he lost the 2020 presidential election. Continue reading...

Jannik Sinner will be the new world No 1 after Novak Djokovic withdrew from the tournament due to a knee injuryA decent return from Gauff makes 30-15 but Jabeur is finding first serves, and though she's soon drawn into a net exchange, a tasty volley is good enough. The pot is boiling.Another terrific hold from Gauff who makes 40-0 then picks a drop, skidding in to flip a backhand pick-up cross-court for a clean winner. Things will change as the match progresses, but at the moment it looks like it'll turn on a point her or there. Gauff 3-2 Jabeur Continue reading...

Jay Ostrem, 64, reportedly became upset after his wife told him she was assaulted by a neighborA former small-town mayor charged with murder after a triple killing last week reportedly became upset before the deadly shooting because his wife told him that she had been assaulted by a neighbor.The details on the alleged apparent motive in the case came amid the most recent update on the shooting deaths that occurred the night of 27 May in the small town of Centerville, South Dakota, about 40 minutes outside of Sioux Falls, NBC News reported, citing court documents. Continue reading...

National parks service says bison aren't agressive but will defend their space when threatened' after 83-year-old was woundedA bison gored and seriously wounded an elderly woman at Wyoming's Yellowstone national park over the weekend, rangers said.The attack occurred on 1 June near the Storm Point trail at Yellowstone lake, where the animal was defending its ground", according to a news release by the US national parks service (NPS). Continue reading...

While their huge egos have rubbed each other the wrong way in the past, they may have found common groundWhat happens when two of the most influential and insufferable people in the universe join forces? Looks like we're about to find out. Rumour has it that Elon Musk is cosying up to convicted felon, adjudicated fraudster and presidential hopeful Donald Trump, in the hopes of securing a job in the White House.Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the pair speak on the phone several times a month, and have discussed a possible advisory role for Musk if Trump is elected president again. It's not clear what political pies Musk wants to stick his little fingers in: The role hasn't been fully hammered out," the WSJ said. But, according to people familiar with the talks", Musk might get a position advising on border security and the economy. Continue reading...

A new book looks back at the federal investigation that found bribery and corruption within a major industry and the informant who was at the centerOn 26 September 2018, 10 prominent US college sports figures were arrested in connection with a federal investigation into fraud and corruption. Specifically, the government alleged that business managers and financial advisers had bribed basketball coaches to secure business with NBA-bound players, and that a senior executive with Adidas had further conspired with them to funnel payments to high school players and their families in exchange for their commitment to Adidas-sponsored college sports programs.The scandal - which ensnared the top NBA draft pick Deandre Ayton, hall of fame coach Rick Pitino and Kobie Baker, the associate athletic director at Alabama, one of the country's premier talent factories - was a black eye for the NCAA, the keystone cops who style themselves as virtuous defenders of amateurism in college sports while reaping billions off the backs of student-athletes, the majority of them Black and quite economically disadvantaged. The extent of the scheme wasn't fully understood until one of the schemers, a middle-aged moneyman named Marty Blazer, was turned into an FBI informant. There's a saying in law enforcement of being half a cop'," says true crime writer Guy Lawson, when you're the criminal but you start to think cops are cool. Marty became a motivated cooperator. He became an inventive one." Continue reading...

New publisher Will Lewis's heavy-handed moves alienated a great staff

Our catastrophes have wrought psychic devastation. It's worth acknowledging that and trying to be kind to one anotherEverything is weird and everyone is wrecked. This is maybe the biggest and least acknowledged truth of life in the United States and a lot of places beyond right now. It's the pandemic; the eight years of Trumpism; the distortions, disruptions and corruptions Silicon Valley has promulgated and other looming menaces, including climate chaos. We all know this, because we're living it, but maybe we should talk more about the fact that our political catastrophes are inseparable from widespread psychic devastation, that the public and private, political and personal, are entangled - or rather that the former has wrought havoc on the latter.The wisest people I know are aware that the stresses, atrocities, divisions and divergences from norms of recent years have made them (and everyone else) exhausted and brittle. The less wise but no less brittle either lash out with the sense that what's wrong is definitely someone else or take refuge in cults and oversimplified versions in which they are at least in control of what it all means.Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell's Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunatabua of the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility Continue reading...

Under Xi Jinping, national security has swallowed up all other state policies, and Hong Kong's activists are paying the priceHours after attending a 4 June vigil, a Chinese student overseas is contacted by her father, bearing a message from the security services: do not participate in activities that might harm China's reputation. In a London theatre, three British actors starring in May 35th, a play about the 1989 Tiananmen killings, keep their identities secret and use pseudonyms. They take this step after actors drop out of a previous Tiananmen-related production in Arizona due to perceived risks to family in China.Thirty-five years have passed since the People's Liberation Army opened fire on the Chinese people, yet Beijing seems more determined than ever to suppress acts commemorating the deaths of 4 June - even small ones far beyond China's own borders. Such repression appears irrational: its targets are not influential political figures, their actions are limited in reach and the acts of suppression affect basic freedoms in other countries far from China. Yet it is illustrative of the sea change at the heart of Xi Jinping's China. The man dubbed the chairman of everything" is transforming China into a security state whose top priority is the securitisation of everything, all the way down to the individual.Louisa Lim is the author of Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, and The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited. She is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Melbourne Continue reading...

Former Trump fixer laments sad times we are living through' as addresses and phone numbers of wife and children posted onlineDonald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen has become the latest target of doxing efforts by supporters of the former president following Trump's conviction of criminally falsifying business records last week.According to Advance Democracy, the addresses and phone numbers of Cohen's wife and children were posted on a website on Monday, days after the non-profit group warned of a high volume of social media posts containing violent rhetoric targeting the New York judge Juan Merchan and the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, each of whom played key roles in Trump's conviction. Continue reading...

Ex-leader of US Covid response said congresswoman and Fox News sparked credible death threats' against him and his familyAfter Anthony Fauci appeared at a contentious US House hearing on Monday, the former top public health official who led the nation's response to Covid-19 singled out the far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Fox News as drivers of the credible death threats" that he described to lawmakers.Whether it's ... news media - you know Fox News does it a lot - or it's somebody in the Congress who gets up and makes a public statement that ... the deaths of X number of people [were] because of policies or some crazy idea that I created, immediately, it's like clockwork: the death threats go way up," Fauci said in an interview with CNN. Continue reading...

Lender denies whistleblowers' claim transactions worth $100bn were carried out in breach of sanctionsWhistleblowers have claimed Standard Chartered allegedly carried out billions of dollars of previously undetected transactions for Iran-linked entities and terrorist organisations, according to a New York court filing.Two whistleblowers, who include a former executive at the British bank, filed a motion last week to set aside a judgment that dismissed an earlier lawsuit they filed, in an attempt to revive their efforts. Continue reading...

If signed by governor, state could surgically castrate people convicted of sex crimes against children younger than 13 years oldLouisiana judges could order surgical castration for people convicted of sex crimes against young children under legislation approved on Monday - and if the Republican governor, Jeff Landry, signs it into law, the state apparently would be the first with such a punishment.The Republican-controlled state legislature passed the bill giving judges the option to sentence someone to surgical castration after the person has been convicted of certain aggravated sex crimes - including rape, incest and molestation - against a child under 13. Continue reading...

President's move comes amid voter dissatisfaction over migration, while progressive and Latino lawmakers express alarm. Plus, world's first personalized cancer vaccine halves the risk of death from melanomaGood morning.Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order on Tuesday that would instruct authorities to temporarily seal the border with Mexico when illegal crossings exceed a daily threshold, in the harshest border action taken so far by his administration.What's been the reaction? Many progressive and Hispanic lawmakers were alarmed at the comprehensive order, and legal challenges are expected.How does it work? The jab, which is personalized for each patient, instructs their body to kill any remaining cancer cells and stop the disease from returning. Continue reading...

The city allows non-citizens to vote only in local elections, but Republicans have made it a central issue to stoke distrust in resultsIn a message left for the Washington DC board of elections on 1 May, a caller expressed anger at the city for allowing non-US citizens to vote in local elections.Where the hell do you get off letting illegals vote?" the caller, who does not leave their name, said in a voicemail that the board of elections executive director, Monica Evans, played for the Guardian. This is the nation's capital. You are traitors. Traitors to your own country." Continue reading...

What she has been through would sink most people. But the woman at the white-hot epicentre of Donald Trump's 34 felony convictions was always going to hold her nerveIn the opening scene of Stormy, the documentary about Stormy Daniels' life, she says: I have just been tormented for the last five years or so. And here I am, I'm still here." Probably the worst of the torment has been from Donald Trump's supporters, though they've never got together to explain what they're angry about. Is it that Daniels claims she had sex with Trump, in 2006? That she accepted $130,000 to keep quiet about it? Surely, if he's the richest and most virile man America ever produced, you'd think that was no big deal for him, and nice for her?Instead, as she described on the stand, giving evidence against Trump, the Maga lot have made her life a misery. Death threats layered with lurid threats of sexual violence, enough that she was constantly worried for the safety of her family, have poured in since 2018, when the Wall Street Journal first broke the story.Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Julie Adams, who abstained from certifying May results, belongs to Election Integrity Network, founded by Trump ally Cleta MitchellA Republican on the Fulton county election board who refused to certify the May primary election is a member of an election denial activist network founded by Cleta Mitchell, a Trump ally who aided his efforts to overturn the election in Georgia and elsewhere.Julie Adams, who was appointed to the board in February, abstained from certifying the results of the May primary last month. Each of the other four board members, including the other Republican appointee Michael Heekin, voted for certification. No allegation of error or misconduct has been raised about the 21 May primary. Continue reading...

Last year the American won the Golden Trail Championship as a runner. A few months later she was winning a cross country skiing world cup raceFor most pro athletes, racing for 11 months each year in two different sports would be daunting, if not downright exhausting. For Sophia Laulki, it offers balance.During the winter, Laukli races for the US ski team in the FIS Cross Country World Cup. During the summer she competes in the Golden Trail World Series against the best short distance trail runners on the planet. In between, she allows herself the decadent luxury of an entire week off. Continue reading...

Far right ideology has not changed, it has become normalised in the minds of voters, thanks to a snowball effectThis week, citizens of all 27 EU member states will begin to vote in the European parliament elections. One outcome seems inevitable: the far right will make significant gains. Polls suggest that the two groups in the European parliament that harbour far-right parties could secure about 20% of the seats, a fourfold increase since the early 1990s. In four of the six founding EU states, these parties lead in the polls.Where does this far-right success come from? One explanation is that far-right parties have become more moderate over the years, while voters have become more radicalised. Yet research indicates that this explanation does not make sense. On their core issues, such as immigration and anti-establishment politics, far-right parties are as radical as ever, and according to research, voters are no less trusting of their politicians and parliaments than they were three decades ago, no less satisfied with the workings of democracy, and their attitudes to immigration have remained relatively unchanged. What has changed is not their ideologies, but that parties and voters have been driven into each other's arms.Matthijs Rooduijn is a political scientist at the University of Amsterdam Continue reading...

Social media has taught us that technology is neither innately good or bad. AI must be approached with this same critical mindset

Authorities confirmed 70 people were taken in to custody, cited for trespassing and released after they refused to vacate' the premisesPolice on Monday arrested pro-Palestinian demonstrators who occupied the lobby of a San Francisco building that houses the Israeli Consulate.Associated Press journalists saw police zip-tie the hands of about 50 people. Officers then put them in police vans and drove them away. San Francisco police later confirmed that 70 protesters were arrested and cited for trespassing after they refused to vacate the building". They have since been released from San Francisco county jail. Continue reading...

The Israeli PM's invitation comes amid deep differences with the Biden administrationBenjamin Netanyahu is set to become the first foreign leader to address a joint session of the US Congress four times, despite deep differences with the Biden administration.The Israeli prime minister's office said in a statement that a date for his address to Congress had yet to be set, but that it would not take place on 13 June as had been reported, due to a Jewish holiday. Continue reading...

Doctor, who was head of infectious diseases unit during height of the pandemic, tells Congress he and his family still get harassedAnthony Fauci, the former head of the US infectious diseases unit, has received credible death threats" stemming from his time overseeing the nation's fight against Covid-19, he has told Congress.Fauci, who was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the height of attempts to halt the spread of the virus, told a hearing on Capitol Hill that the threats had continued until the present day, even though he retired in 2022. Continue reading...

The eruption began early Monday in a remote area that last saw lava a half-century ago, with absolutely no property in danger'Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, began erupting early on Monday in a remote area that last erupted a half-century ago, the US Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.The eruption is about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the Kilauea caldera, in an area within Hawaii Volcanoes national park that last erupted in December 1974. The area surrounding the caldera has been closed to the public since 2008 because of other hazards, including ground cracking, instability in the crater wall and rockfalls. Continue reading...

Fire east of San Francisco was significantly surrounded after reportedly scorching more than 22 sq miles over the weekendCalifornia's largest wildfire so far this year was significantly surrounded on Monday after blackening a swath of hilly grasslands between San Francisco bay and the Central valley.The Corral fire was 75% contained after scorching more than 22 sq miles (57 sq km) over the weekend, the California department of forestry and fire protection, or Cal Fire, said. One home was destroyed and two firefighters were injured. Continue reading...

Stormy Daniels says she doesn't know what the sentencing could be, but compared Trump to a child that needed a punishment that not just matches the crime'

DoJ filing says president's interview with special counsel about handling of classified documents could be improperly altered'The US Department of Justice is making a novel legal argument to keep a recording of an interview with Joe Biden from becoming public. In a filing late last week, the bureau cited the risk of AI-generated deepfakes as one of the reasons it refuses to release audio of the president's interview with special counsel Robert Hur. The conversation about Biden's handling of classified documents is a source of heated political contention, with Republicans pushing for release of the recordings and the White House moving to block them.The justice department's filing, which it released late on Friday night, argues that the recording should not be released on a variety of grounds including privacy interests and executive privilege. One section of the filing, however, is specifically dedicated to the threat of deepfakes and disinformation, stating that there is substantial risk people could maliciously manipulate the audio if it were to be made public. Continue reading...

Novak Djokovic produced a stunning five-set comeback while both Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina won in straight setsRybakina wins first set 6-4So Svitolina is serving to stay in the first set. Which she does with not too much fuss, holding to 15. Just as Rybakina steps up to serve for the set, so does Avanesyan on Suzanne Lenglen. Where to look? Gah! At 30-all on Philippe Chatrier, Svitolina goes for broke down the line and misses. Set point for Rybakina. And there are two set points for Avanesyan. Rybakina doesn't mess about, taking hers, but Avanesyan is taken to deuce. And is then broken. It's 5-3. Continue reading...

These are the moments he lives for - right at the centre of things, all stardust and no responsibilityAlas, poor Dicky, I knew him well. Richard Tice and Nigel Farage had already given two press conferences in the previous week. Both times they had been given equal billing. Even though everyone but Dicky T knew who the real star was. On Monday all pretence had been pushed aside. Out came the op note. Nigel Farage was to make an emergency election announcement". Tice wasn't even mentioned as an afterthought. Even though he was probably paying for the pleasure.Dicky was determined not to be left out, though. The man with no charisma or personal warmth relegated once more to Nige's warm-up act. The man on the downward trajectory. Soon he will be relegated to doorman. I'm not sure if Tice even convinces himself. His patter is all third-rate Farage. The sort of thing you might get if you typed write me a bad Nigel speech" into ChatGPT. Reform was moving into eighth gear", he said. Really? Some of us were losing the will to live. Continue reading...

President's sharp political U-turn aimed at stemming record surge and winning support on key voter concernJoe Biden will this week sign an executive order to temporarily close the southern US border to asylum seekers in a sharp political U-turn aimed at winning support on a key voter concern in a presidential election year.The US president is expected to sign the order as early as Tuesday to seal the border with Mexico to migrants when numbers of asylum claimants rise above a daily threshold of 2,500. Continue reading...

Roughly $390m worth of GameStop shares had changed hands before 6am ET, following Keith Gill's first Reddit post in three yearsGameStop shares rose sharply on Monday after Roaring Kitty" Keith Gill, the man at the heart of a 2021 stock market frenzy around the struggling video gaming chain, returned to Reddit with a post which appeared to show a $116m bet on the chain.The stock soared by as much as 74%, before losing ground in volatile trading. By mid-morning, it was up by 31%. Continue reading...

Presumptive Republican nominee pointed to the 11 July sentence hearing, scheduled four days before the GOP national conventionDonald Trump has called on the US supreme court to step in and annul his guilty verdict in a hush-money trial that left him with the unwanted double distinction of being the first former US president to be a convicted felon.The 2024 presumptive Republican nominee made his plea in a typically florid post on his Truth Social site, highlighting that a sentencing hearing scheduled for 11 July falls just four days before the GOP's national convention in Milwaukee, when his nomination is expected to become official. Continue reading...

When Richard Nixon's perfidy was exposed, his party support crumbled. But with Trump, GOP leaders rallied around himThe Republican leaders were of one mind: if the Republican president committed a crime, he could no longer hold office. They had defended him to a point, but they understood that with proof of criminality they would withdraw their support. Even before the evidence was conclusive, their ultimate judgment about their constitutional duty and of the president's was certain. If it can be proved that he lied, resignation would have to be considered. It would be quick. Everything would be over, ended. It wouldn't drag out like impeachment." So stated senator Barry Goldwater, a previous Republican presidential nominee, still the icon of the conservative movement, in May 1973.It did not matter that Richard Nixon was popular, that he had won the presidency twice, the last time just a year earlier, in a landslide, carrying 49 states. Goldwater did not know that after he made his statement, the smoking gun" tape would be revealed on 5 August 1974. He and the other Republican leaders, however, did know then that a president who had authorized payment of hush money to the Watergate burglars in order win an election and had engaged in a coverup to thwart both the investigation and accountability in the courts would have to quit or face impeachment and removal.Sidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln: A Self-Made Man, Wrestling With His Angel and All the Powers of Earth Continue reading...

In an era of coaching philosophers, the Italian's pragmatic approach continues to give Madrid an edge in Europe

The more self-actualised you become, the higher you are on self-righteousness, blaming other people's problems on their failure to be as healthy as youOK, this is going to sound a little hypocritical, as I have hard-recommended every activity and pursuit, every wellness wheeze and rejuvenation exercise the modern world has dreamed up. Try hot yoga: it plugs you back into your inner child. How about a morning rave? All the cardio of a regular rave, none of the ecstasy: what's not to like? Botox? Fine, it's plastic surgery-lite, but also it makes you look much more friendly. Pilates, cycling, running, high-intensity interval training, Tough Mudders, barre, aerial silks, horse-riding: at some time or another, I have insisted to anyone who will listen that it's only their failure to incorporate, say, a horse into their weekly schedule that is standing between them and their best self.But there is a dark side to wellness, which I always, for shorthand, thought of as political: getting fit makes you more rightwing. The mechanism is incredibly simple: you embark on this voyage of self-improvement, and more or less immediately see results. You feel stronger and more energetic, probably your mood lifts, and pretty soon you think you are master of your own destiny. You're still not, by the way: destiny does not care about your step count. But until that fact catches up with you, which it may never, there you are, high on self-righteousness. You can tell this has happened to you when you start inhaling performatively, like the hero of an Ayn Rand novel. Continue reading...

The former Republican House speaker's comments arrive as Trump's guilty verdict is set to spark election integrity debatesKevin McCarthy, former Republican US House speaker, has said that Americans should accept the results of November's presidential race - as rising political tensions in the aftermath of Donald Trump's campaign finance violation conviction in New York are set to inflame election integrity issues.The relatively moderate McCarthy, who was ousted as speaker last year in a Republican power struggle and has since resigned from Congress, said on Sunday that every American should accept the results" of the election that is expected to pit Democratic incumbent Joe Biden against the former Republican president Trump. Continue reading...

The more the political establishment damns the ex-president, the more those outside its reach are drawn to himGuilty", screamed the one-word headline in the New York Times last week, dripping with undisguised glee. Howls of contempt descended on Donald Trump as he slunk from his Manhattan courtroom to cries of felon". He now awaits sentence and three more criminal trials, two of them over his response to his 2020 election defeat.Ecstasy is a dangerous substance in politics. Trump's enemies should be careful what they wish for. Within 24 hours of his leaving court, $39m reportedly poured into his campaign coffers. Though some Republicans seemed hesitant, an Ipsos poll for Reuters showed voting intention tilting in his favour. As with his victory in 2016, the more the political establishment damns him, the more those outside its reach are drawn to him. Continue reading...